The BBC Domesday Project was a partnership between Acorn Computers
Ltd, Philips, Logica and the BBC. It marked the 900th anniversary of the
original Domesday Book, an 11th century census of England.

It was compiled between 1984 and 1986 and published in 1986. It
featured a 'survey' of the United Kingdom, in which people (mostly
school children) wrote about the geography, history or social issues in
their local area or simply about their daily lives. This was linked with
maps, colour photos, statistical data, video and 'virtual walks'. It is
estimated that over 1 million people participated in the project.

As well as data from public input, the project also included
professionally-prepared video footage, virtual reality tours of major
landmarks and other prepared datasets such as the 1981 census.

It is often cited as an example of 'digital obsolescence' as the
physical medium used for data storage (LV-ROM) was very quickly
superceded meaning there are now very few LV-ROM players available and
in working order and the discs themsleves are also now starting to
suffer.

The Centre for Computing History has three working Domesday Systems all of which are complete with discs and other media. Additional laserdisc players, discs, manuals and documentation has been supplied by Netherhall School in Cambridge.

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